Office Life

My vacation stand-in told me, he had to do overtime for two weeks straight in order to handle the workload and today I want to share with you how I reacted. But let’s start at the beginning. How did it come to this? It all happened in the project team I am currently leading. My vacation plans for this year were overlapping with the other senior developer in that project by two whole weeks. Which is bad! Because we both would usually be the stand in for the other. The only way this would be feasible is when we both found someone willing to keep the ball rolling while we are gone. ...

Ah yes, another year is slowly coming to an end. This means that project plans are nearing fruition/failure. Maybe people start to feel the call for change, thinking to themselves that 2023 will be the year when they leave the hell hole they wander daily. Or maybe their company is bought by a eccentric billionaire who decides to lay of half of his software engineering team based on the lines of code written in the last year - sick metric by the way! ...

My Greatest Prank … that went a little too far At work I try my best to be professional. Or at least to make others think that I am. Yet, I was once given the opportunity to pull a masterpiece of a prank on one of my colleagues. Needless to say that I took it. Let’s start at the beginning. The Setup It was a normal day at work. I was inspecting the task manager on one of our servers and to my surprise I noticed that I was actually an administrator ond said server. (Actually it was not too surprising. It was the development server. I am a developer. Getting total freedom to test things is kinda useful and only makes sense.) ...